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© Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.SDF paratroopers take part in landmark jump over Alaska
By MARK THIESSEN JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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MyTimeIsYourTime
Through a translator. Would translators be used during time of war too?
Noble713
Cool and interesting. I honestly didn't know the SDF had a paratrooper unit. An entire brigade (according to Wiki).
doraemonchan
Skydive seems more suitable for invasion than self defense to me.
Wc626
True. But when it's time to pay the piper ie; get ur feet wet / SHTF. How can you back up an ally or "fellow countrymen" deploying (either to-from) Kyushu to Hokkaido? Okinawa? Senkaku Islands?
It could be for defense as well. Depends on size of their balls- but heck! There were only 2 dozen or so, of these heroes. Doesn't say too much now does it-
Kenny Iyekawa
"Through a translator. Would translators be used during time of war too?"
Of course...how did American talk to Russians in WWII...sign language??
Wc626
Smoke signals in the form of two mushroom clouds. That's how they talked.
Triring
Wc626
FYI, the 1st Airborne Brigade consists of around 2,000 personnel.